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    By J V Birch

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    ‘Charged with vivid imagery and distilled emotion, J V Birch’s poems carry us across the globe, swerving between touching intimacies and crackling insight as she skilfully unfolds the emotional complexities of beauty and loss. Venturing into memories of childhood and family, these poems brim with the bittersweet tensions of relations

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateFeb 19, 2019
    ISBN9781760416942
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      J V Birch

      Ginninderra Press

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      ISBN 978 1 76041 694 2

      Copyright © text J V Birch 2019

      Cover photograph: J V Birch

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2019 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      Recall the tenderness of us

      Feel the sting of a long-ago star

      Take over your life and be

      Run with the colours of home

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks

      I work very hard and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it. I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

      Maya Angelou

      Recall the tenderness of us

      Flame

      Curved glass is split into panels

      each holds a pair of hearts

      one big

      one small

      dappled red and beating

      against a backdrop of midnight.

      I think of your arms around me

      how when the world’s winds flux

      in the wild dark falling

      you quiet our corner

      as we watch the tealight flicker

      pool itself.

      Auntie Australia

      It’s Sunday night, Skype time

      and I feel the smile as my brother appears,

      his son perched on his lap.

      This is daddy’s sister, your auntie in Australia.

      And that’s how it started – ‘Auntie Australia’ –

      my nephew clapping and grinning.

      I notice his lashes have grown,

      his eyes are bluer, he’s got a new tooth.

      I attempt a screenshot – like netting a butterfly

      as he plays with the keys,

      sees himself in the corner of the screen,

      beams and waves, looks back up at his dad.

      We swap news of our fingertip family.

      And after goodbyes, as their image

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